[mythtv-users] Separate Frontend - New Install

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> On Aug 5, 2017, at 12:26 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/08/17 18:13, John Pilkington wrote:
>>> On 05/08/17 16:39, Roger Siddons wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> Ran mythwelcome and then connected gave correct backend IP then ran mythfrontend -- crashes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Seems something broke because i can't seem to even start it. Keeps complaining. Ran it as root - just to see if it's permissions, nothing
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://pastebin.com/nResJiMG
>>> 
>>> 2017-08-05 02:25:44.884288 W  MythUIHelper: No theme dir: '/usr/share/mythtv/themes/Terra'
>>> 
>>> The frontend can't run without any themes. Those dirs should be populated by the installation. Reinstall.
>>> 
>> It's clear that the rpmfusion mythfrontend package, at least on el7, doesn't bring in all that a standalone frontend needs.  I think you might do better to install 'mythtv' and get the frontend going.  Then you could rpm -e --nodeps the bits that you don't need.
>> Or installing mythtv-base-themes and mythtv-common, mythffmpeg(?) ...
>> I find 'yumex' useful.  yum install yumex.
> 
> I didn't read far enough down the listing; mythtv-base-themes and mythtv-common *are* declared and ought to be brought in.  Sorry.
> 
> A later build has just been loaded into rpmfusion-free-updates-testing
> 

Thanks. I am out but will enable testing repo and install from there. Hope it won't matter that backend is "regular" 

> John
> 
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